Only a tiny portion of our readers give. Thank you. Home Reviews Movies. None Light Moderate Heavy Language. They are led by Patricia, a psychologist and best-selling author. The couples get several surprises during their stay. The s was a decade of huge change in the United States. In United States v. Paramount Pictures , 4 a Hollywood antitrust case from broke up the Studio System, so movies became more competitive.
At the same time, suburbia began, as everyone after World War II wanted to have their own homes. Within suburbia, the family unit was very strong. The popularity of drive-in movies and television provided activities that the whole family could be involved in, in order to keep the family unit strong. People wanted more in their movies than in past decades. As competition for audiences grew, the themes had to become more sophisticated than before.
The themes became more realistic with characters that had more depth and situations that were more adult. These realistic themes brought characters that had faults like the next door neighbor or somebody who the audience knew at work.
The acting style changed, portraying the characters more three dimensionally and realistically. Themes from previous decades were no longer valid. What type of theme would be reflective of the American society of the s? What would be next for Jack and Suzie? How about a theme that simply states what is best for the family?
If you were Jack or Suzie, what would you want that would encompass all the aforementioned occurrences of the s? Perhaps Suzie would want to get married and have a family, since this was an important part of the s. Suzie, though, would have more individuality doing this than women during the decades of the s or s.
Jack, as the male head of the household, would be instrumental in providing the theme. How could this theme be exemplified? What type of person would Jack be?
Jack would be any man who lived in a large city, small town, or a new suburban location. He could have had a job working in a factory or a position with a corporation. The job would be nothing glamorous, but he would be responsible to his family and his employer.
Jack would be involved in something or he would have witnessed something where he had to decide what action to take for the betterment of Suzie, their relationship, and maintaining their family unit. Suzie would have supported him in any action he took. Jack would do what he believed to be the most truthful scenario to arrive at the best course of action. To Jack, he performed the correct action, even though nothing would be any longer the same, but the family unit and his relationship with Suzie would have survived the best way possible.
This means family above the job, if necessary. Generally, family and job survive if everything is done the ethical way. The first half of the s looked very much like the end of the s. The theme, reflecting on Suzie or Jack as a tarnished person, could occur but within the acceptance of the morals of society. In addition, Jack would still be the dominate influence. The theme, for instance, could be a social change that Suzie makes but Jack would orchestrate the change for his benefit.
If Jack made the social change, then he ultimately succeeds on his own. Suzie could assist, but she would only be a supporting character. However, a big difference in the liberality of the American society, or at least part of American society, occurred between the mid- and late s. In the mids, society began a massive change in issues about fighting overseas and social norms, so a big change in movie themes should also be noticeable. This change was brought about by many factors.
McCarthyism and the government, in general, became the enemy, along with corporate management. Animosity toward the Vietnam Conflict grew along with protesting the actions of the American government.
The role of women in movies was changing, caused by the second-wave feminism from the early s. Women were becoming a controlling influence in the movies that were produced. Women were no longer defenseless and in need of male support. If you were part of the American public that experienced the change in the late s, specifically from to the end of the decade, you wanted to watch and see the changed American public on the big screen.
In this type of changing thematic climate, we would begin discussing Suzie as the main character. She could be hard working and attempting to reach some degree of success. However, with this type of theme, Suzie would have a turning point where she discovers other people finding ways to circumvent getting ahead in a company or government by manipulating people to get the promotion rather than by working hard. In this type of atmosphere, Suzie would ultimately be found out by Jack.
Jack would make sure, by the climax of the movie, that Suzie would receive her just rewards for the actions she took. In this decade, the producer might have wanted a theme of accomplishment, especially for Suzie, because this was a period of enforcing gender equality.
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act passed in , providing educational equality for males and females. What type of theme would exhibit educational equality at the beginning? The theme could be growth and development to gain what you want because prejudice has stopped you in the past. Or, sometimes you had to get angry to get what you wanted.
Suzie could express the desire to achieve educational equality by portraying a college student. She is the college student that just goes because it is free for her, and people believed in the s that high school graduates should go to college because it was part of growing up.
So, Suzie would start college and begin to wander aimlessly through the first semester of courses with no specific purpose or outcome in mind. Then Suzie meets someone, Jack. Jack would have a need to succeed because he has a sibling to support because his parents have died. Jack is older and has realized he has to make something of himself in order to survive. Suzie likes Jack and looks up to him. She even wants to mirror his desire for success. However, Suzie runs into a prejudicial roadblock at college.
She fights to succeed and Jack assists her in her quest. The theme would be very well expressed and quite pertinent in the s, the decade of innovative themes, as women started to come into their own. We have now progressed to the theme period of the s. What types of themes were predominant in the s? Conversations are peppered with stories and innuendoes about venereal diseases, bedroom behavior, and more. Not too much swearing, but numerous uses of the words "slut," "ho," "ass," and even "mortherf-" the person stops before saying "f--ker".
Fancy cars Mercedes and designer duds signify a comfortable lifestyle for many of the couples, but it doesn't feel like a commercial. No smoking, but some social drinking wine at dinner and at a reception.
One character admits to drinking way too much. Parents need to know that this film is too grown-up for the younger members of Tyler Perry's ultra-loyal fanbase. Though there's no explicit sex, and the language is fairly mild occasional uses of "ass" is about as strong as it gets , the movie's themes -- infidelity, deception, and vulnerability within a marriage -- are definitely meant for adults.
Also expect plenty of sexual innuendoes, some characterizations bordering on stereotype the leech-like ex-wife, the shopping-crazy mistress, etc. Add your rating See all 8 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 4 kid reviews.
Lawyer Diane Sharon Leal can't seem to stay away from work, despite her pediatrician husband Terry's Perry pleas to spend time with him and have another baby.
Jones , her not-so-better-half, who spends his days either needling her about her weight or cheating on her. There's no denying Tyler Perry's talent. As a writer, he has a pretty good command of voice; he's able to capture a woman's point of view in addition to a man's.
As a director, he's sure-footed, confident in his ability to tell a story. Still, that doesn't mean that this film -- which he both wrote and directed -- is a great movie. Interesting, yes.
Enjoyable, sure. Funny, pretty much. But the parts are greater than the whole. In short, everyone's relationship is a mess, which any filmmaker worth his salt knows makes for good storytelling fodder.
But here, the material's bogged down by unsurprising life lessons -- you can't get everything you need from your spouse, for starters -- and expository dialogue that tells, not shows. When Sheila loses it after discovering Mike's infidelity, she announces that her life is "nothing" without him. But we only know it because she says so. When Patricia breaks down and cries over her lost child, she says she's been suffering all this time -- but we haven't witnessed any of it. Basically, the characters talk too much and don't do enough, leaving the film slack.
Nevertheless, the cast has chemistry, with Scott as the breakout star for her nuanced performance. Sheila is so pathetic, so beaten down, and yet so sadly believable that when she finally finds herself and a new man , it's hard not to clap and holler. Families can talk about how this movie portrays marriage. One of my very close friends had to file for a divorce because of the workload she was having and the fact that her husband was not trying to get a job at all.
It became worse when he started filing for full custody of their children claiming that she was an unfit mother who was never there for her children. It was painful for me to watch the marriage break up because the real cause of the break up was the disagreement between the two cultures. Her mother-in-law did not like her at all. I asked her to describe why she is concerned with her general life-being, and she explained how ever since she has lost her mother, she has been living with her brother and his wife.
Her mother was very overprotective. She goes on to tell me that she does not have a job, but she wants her brother to find one for her that he thinks will benefit her. She also explains how since she does not have a job, she must rely on her brother and his wife to help her financially with phone bills and groceries.
She states that she constantly is asking her brother to go with her to the store because she feels uncomfortable going by herself and feels helpless when he is not with her. Kit loved how Rafe took off his clothes spontaneously before they got married. This ironical change of her mind brings changes into her attitudes. She starts to see her husband as a sociopathic man who is from another world and alienates him from her. She is overbearing and suffocates her children with her love.
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